This synthesis report, Strategy for revenue improvement for the city of Dakar - September 2013 to July 2014, for Senegal is intended to expose the entire process of improving its savings and having a debt repayment capacity or other forms of financing and should also serve as a reference for further work and in particular the implementation of the recommendations and actions.
... Exibir mais + The report has four parts: 1) The objectives and main recommendations of the workshop on 22 and September 23, 2014 and its conclusions; 2) in May 2014 feedback workshop which includes the synthesis of complementary studies; 3) The consequences of the new Code for local authorities in December 2013 for revenues of the City of Dakar; and 4) In conclusion, the main recommendations of the study.
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The development objective of the Fadama Information and Knowledge Services Project for Nigeria is to establish sustainable, Fadama information, knowledge and business advisory services centers (FIKS) to increase farm productivity and rural household incomes in the poorest sections of the Fadama community in Cross River, Lagos, Sokoto and Yobe states over a four year period using a variety of information and communication technologies.
... Exibir mais + The project comprises of three components. The first component, development of virtual agriculture and veterinary advisory services to develop virtual advisory services in agriculture and veterinary services by linking the Fadama farmers to local, national and international specialists in the university, national and international agricultural research institutes, private sector, NGO's, Farmer associations, etc., to provide near and/or real time advisory services to solve problems faced by the farmers focusing on their main agricultural crops and livestock products; The second component, establishment of Fadama information and knowledge services centers is to provide transaction based IT enabled locally relevant information and knowledge services to improve rural productivity and incomes of the poorest sections of the Fadama farm community in Cross River, Lagos, Sokoto and Yobe states; The third component, monitoring, evaluation, learning and audit is to establish a dynamic monitoring and evaluation system which would track input, output, outcome, and impact indicators to measure the performance of the proposed activities of the JSDF project.
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Over the last 20 years most road agencies have implemented some form of computerized road management system (RMS). The purpose of these systems is to assist the road agency in the planning and prioritization of road investments.
... Exibir mais + While some systems have been successful, there have also been many which have failed in one or more areas. This is in spite of large investments of time and money. While it is often easy to identify the symptoms of failure, the causes are often complex and multi-layered. However, for every failed system, there is a more successful implementation somewhere in the world, in an agency that often suffers from similar problems and constraints. This note describes the different factors associated with successful RMS implementations. It is a summary of the report success factors for road management systems.
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